Must be a typo, I bet they meant 90 minutes an hour.
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Trying to think if I can cobble together 90 minutes a day that I'm NOT online...
I remember back in the Windows ME era or thereabouts when Microsoft was pushing hard at the notion that your computer will always be online and connected to the internet, and we were all treating them like they were full of shit. Sure, all of us geeks would love to be connected 24/7 but really nobody is going to be able to provide a connection with that kind of uptime, and even if they could we'd never be able to afford it.
Right?
Anyway, most of the tools I'm required to use to do my job are hosted on the Internet, so there's no way I can't be "online" as long as I'm at work. I'm offline when I'm on my motorcycle. And y'all motherfuckers will never find me.
Reminds me of when I got my second ever flip phone, and while it was great with texts (which played cool data transmission sounds over nearby speakers) and it was the first one I had with a camera, the first-gen web browser they had on it simply took ages getting even an image to load over the cellular connection.
I was thinking, this is cool. I can actually web browse on my phone. Sort of. I figured the connection will get better over time and was generally optimistic about what a cell phone would someday be, but never did I think we'd be able to stream not just video but high-definition video over cell service like it's nothing. While I have a lot more experience and knowledge now, I've learned to hesitate before claiming anything is impossible.
Yeah, because we dialup users definitely didn't do all nighters online. At 300 baud. Nope, sure didn't.
That's how long it took to look at a few medium res images.
Date in the corner says 2015
Yes the dark ages.
Between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis, and the rise of the sons of Aryas, there was an age undreamed of. And unto this, Conan, destined to bear the jeweled crown of the ever-online upon a troubled brow. It is I, his chronicler, who alone can tell thee of his saga. Let me tell you of the days of high broadband!
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I assumed this might have been a late 90s article about the "dangers" of internet addiction.
It was from fucking 2015. I really really hope it was satire.
oh man, in 98 it was nothing to spend 5 hours a day online.
Keep in mind that 35% of that was connecting and reconnecting.
Getting that download to 95% and a phone call coming in...
OMG yes!!!!
Or someone in the house using the phone in the middle of it…
Why would your download fail if a phone call comes in. Genuinely curious.I mean I know you guys were using voodo magic back in the day to get internet access. But still wouldn't it just get paused and resume once call was over?
Dial up internet used phone lines. The same phone lines your calls came in on. Anytime someone called or someone tried to call out, you were very likely disconnected and had to reconnect. Early on, there were no download managers that would pause and reconnect you to finish a download if interrupted.
Every time i read such article there is strongly present unspoken "...instead of working his ass for his boss"
these kind of stories feel like they're labeling things in a pejorative light to manufacture peer pressure so that people will think it's bad; like "quiet quitting"
Ninety minutes a day online doing what?
Goose starts chasing you
ONLINE DOING WHAT, MOTHERF*****

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